Enjoy Some Gratuitous Mercedes AMG SLS Porn

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Enjoy Some Gratuitous Mercedes AMG SLS Porn

Tomorrow marks the racing debut of Mercedes SLS AMG GT3, which we're noting because it's an excuse to run pics of this sweet ride.

The car makes its inaugural run at the hands of Bernd Schneider and Thomas Jäger in the 42nd ADAC Barbarossa Cup at the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife. Competing is "a fixed part of the development and testing programme" for the car, Mercedes says. Think of it as a four-hour R&D shakedown run on one of the world's most demanding tracks.

Still no specific word on the car's output or performance, but the 6.3-liter V8 in the road-going AMG SLS is good for 571 horsepower. Count on the GT3 comfortably exceeding that. The stripped-down, hopped-up Gullwing also gets a different splitter, gargantuan wing and other mods to increase aerodynamics and performance.

The AMG SLS GT3 was developed under the GT3 rules of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile for privateers to campaign. In other words, you can buy one. If you've got €397,460 (about $535,000), that is.